The human soul

On several occasions I've heard the human body looses a number of grams of body weight at death ( apart from bodily fluids, liquid or feces). Of course, it's said this loss of weight proves the existence of the human soul. Has anyone else heard this?
For myself, I refer to my soul as being my core, my inner self that I rarely share with anyone else. I'm interested in what other atheists think.

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Muscles relaxing would have no effect on the mass (weight) of the body. The volume of air held in the lungs of the average human being when filled is about 6 litres (0.006 m³), and the density of air is about 1.2 Kg/m³ at 20C.

Well, yes. If you have a really good set of scales like they have at your doctor's office or health centre, try standing on them and inhaling to the maximum extent you can, then exhale and watch the display.

A couple of weeks ago my daughter and two grown grand daughters sat with Bear, their beloved Great Pyrenees on a veterinarian’s examining table suffering from advanced cancer. As the vet prepared chemicals to put Bear down the girls sat on each side and my daughter held his head and looked into his eyes. She understood Bear knew what was happening and he looked, with gratitude, into her eyes. Of course I am anthropomorphizing this dogs behavior, but the feelings of Laura and Michelle and Laurie and Bear were all in sync.

Do dogs have souls? Do humans? I don’t know. I do know love when I see it. I do know life when it is there and when it is gone. What word should I use for this event?

"MacDougall's results were flawed because the methodology used to harvest them was suspect, the sample size far too small, and the ability to measure changes in weight imprecise. For this reason, credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul as . His postulations on this topic are a curiosity, but nothing more."

He only used 6 patients in his experiments, of which 2 results were discarded. So the experiment was unscientific as the sample was ridiculously small.